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Windows 7: Wireless G or N for a Network Printer?

I'm looking into purchasing a new printer. However, the one I am interested in only has up to wireless G. I'm just looking for some opinions. Do you believe I'd be better off with one that has wireless N?

Depends on your router and other devices you have.
If your router is n or g, and everything else you have is n capable and you hook up a g device, everything will run at g speeds.
Some routers have 2 built in wireless networks so you can run g and n simultaneously.

Personally I just share the printer across the network...for me it's just way more easier. Once I share the printer, then each PC in the network can add that printer and windows does the rest. Then all PC's in the network can print from that printer. The beauty of this set up...again for me... is all my laptops on my network print with this setup wirelessly. There is no need for a wireless printer...works for me very well.

Personally I just share the printer across the network...for me it's just way more easier. Once I share the printer, then each PC in the network can add that printer and windows does the rest. Then all PC's in the network can print from that printer. The beauty of this set up...again for me... is all my laptops on my network print with this setup wirelessly. There is no need for a wireless printer...works for me very well.

If you have the printer attached to a machine that is doing the sharing, that computer must be turned on to print.
You didn't say how your printer is attached to your network.

Personally I just share the printer across the network...for me it's just way more easier. Once I share the printer, then each PC in the network can add that printer and windows does the rest. Then all PC's in the network can print from that printer. The beauty of this set up...again for me... is all my laptops on my network print with this setup wirelessly. There is no need for a wireless printer...works for me very well.

If you have the printer attached to a machine that is doing the sharing, that computer must be turned on to print.
You didn't say how your printer is attached to your network.

Depends on your router and other devices you have.
If your router is n or g, and everything else you have is n capable and you hook up a g device, everything will run at g speeds.
Some routers have 2 built in wireless networks so you can run g and n simultaneously.

That is not correct. If you have an N router, you can run a mixed N and G network with G devices and the N devices running at N speed (though not to the G device). Until I got rid of my last G nic, I was running just such a network.

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